Thorn Street
lays parallel on the southwest side of Haddon Avenue and the rail line
utilized since the 1960s by the PATCO high speed line, running southeast
from Lansdowne Avenue to Copewood Street, although more or less
officially it is said to run from Everett Street to Copewood, as a
section of what ordinarily be considered Thorn Street is assigned to
Whitman Avenue to enable Whitman to remain contiguous from Haddon Avenue
to the tunnel under the rail line and on to the blocks that run towards
Norris Street, Louis Street, and Mount Ephraim Avenue.

The
1947 Camden City Directory shows no addresses on Thorn Street. There
were a number of industrial buildings along Thorn Street, however they
did not carry Thorn Street addresses, i.e., these were the rears of the
Radio Condenser Corporation which carried 1500 Davis Street as its
address. The business still has a presence there in 2015, as RF
Products, Inc.

In
the 1970s a three story apartment complex was built in the 1500 block of
Thorn Street, known as the Ivy Hill Apartments. There was a great deal
of attention in the press in 1998 to the apartments when a raid was
conducted on one unit where the tenants, mother and daughter who both
worked as Camden County Sheriff's officers, had ties to notorious drug
dealer Kenneth Waller. The Ivy Hill Apartments and Thorn Street have
been the scene of other crimes in recent years, including a shooting at
the intersection of Chase and Thorn. In more recent ears an two building
industrial complex was built at 1601 and 1605 Thorn Street. These
buildings appear to have had a number of tenants over the years, some
relating to recycling.

Do
you have an Thorn Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it
can be included here.